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Sunday, May 24, 2015

The Church Of The Market: An Exercise In Sarcasm

The lesson to be
learned is this: no matter how well-intentioned you are, your attempts to make
the world a better place are futile. Worse than futile, because your foolish
meddling will actually make things worse.

The world is what
it is and the iron-clad laws are firmly understood. Nothing you can do will
change it. Any attempt to help the plight of your fellow man will only deprive
them of the most important quality they posses: their animal urge to survive by
whatever means necessary. It is only the threat of being swallowed by the
economic abyss that will compel humans to be the creatures they are meant to
be. Receiving a handout or a hand up will never help them learn the essential
lesson of life, that we are each alone in this world.

Fortunately there
is hope for all of us, a path we can take that can and will lead us to a golden
future. Here is the good news we can all take to heart: Each of us, acting
individually and selfishly as consumers, can change the world! Yes, you the
consumer have the power to change corporate America’s behavior. You can save
the rainforest and increase wages for underage sweatshop workers in Bangladesh
simply by making the right choices when shopping. All you have to do is vote
Coke or Pepsi and the giant wheels of industry will turn at your request. The
world is constantly improving as a result, daily becoming more and more perfect
because of the choices you make while at your local Walmart.

You see, there is
true magic in the world, the magic of the marketplace. More powerful than Harry
Potter’s wand or Gandalf’s staff, it is capable of sprinkling fairy dust on
your purchasing decisions and making dreams come true. Behold the Dinamita
Dorito.

How else to explain such a thing than with words like magic or miracle?
And would a world without Live Wire Mountain Dew be one worth living in? Such
things would not exist if it were not for our participation in the only vehicle
of social interaction that matters: the free market.

Now the free
market being a thing of magic, there is no way to try to explain it, we can
only accept its magic and wonder in its miracles. One only has to witness the
glory of ultra high definition 3D television to realize that it is the one true
path for humanity to follow. Any attempt to undermine it or balance it with
other forms of human organization would be unpatriotic, wrong-headed, naïve, hypocritical
(Have you never eaten a Dorito?) and contrary to the will of God.

Indeed, even to
question the God-given right of the free market to determine the path humanity
might take is a dangerous practice. Thoughts must take a back seat to the
material marvels of market forces. For ideas are merely ideas after all, while
3D televisions are AWESOME!

So put aside the
thoughts that only serve to disquiet you. It’s best not to think about how, if
we all are voting with our dollars, it means billionaires get billons more
votes than most of us. It’s best not to consider that things like 3D television
or the 30th permutation of a drug whose patent has expired exist not
because we as consumers asked for it but because they make money for the
producers. And never for a moment let it enter your head that those with the
most power do not truly believe themselves in the great and holy market. Do not
allow the idea to take root in your thoughts that the priests and prophets of
the golden bull might themselves forget their religion if the opportunity to
earn a quick buck came along at the expense of the freeness of the market. After
all, it is the integrity of the system, not a love of money that compels our
financial leaders. Their morality is beyond any suspicion we lesser mortals
might possess, the proof being that they are rich and we are not.

Such thoughts
would cause the whole of our existence to come crashing down around us, and it
would be you who is to blame. The free market needs your undying belief and,
upon occasion, your sacrifice. For a great and giving thing the beast may be,
but like any god it too requires sacrifice of its followers. So while there is
nothing we Americans profess to love more than Freedom, sometimes it is
necessary to abandon the lesser freedom for the greater. So let us abandon free
thought for the sake of the free market. After all, faith requires it.

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